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Lake trail; Lake Tenaya. KINGS CANYON, common: East Lake. SEQUOIA, common, 

 9,000 to 12.000 feet: Kearsarge Pass; Harrison Pass; Mount Whitney; Hockett 

 Meadows. YELLOWSTONE: along Spring Creek; near Rustic Falls between Mammoth 

 and Norris Junction; Old Faithful. GRAND TETON, occasional, 7,000 to 8,500 feet: 

 head of Death Canyon; Granite Canyon; Waterfall Canyon. ROCKY MOUNTAIN: near 

 Poudre Lakes, 10,800 feet. ZION : Horse Pasture Plateau, 7,250 feet. GRAND CANYON. 



14. Pricky Currant (Rihes lacustre (Pers.) Poir.), fig. 36. — Stout 

 shrub with spreading or nearly prostrate stems 3 to 4 feet long; stems with 

 3 to 5 (or 9) short stout spines below the leaves and usually very prickly 

 between; leaves % to 2^/2 inches across, smooth, nearly without hairs, divided 

 into 5 to 7 lobes, the margins toothed; flowers greenish or purplish, saucer- 

 shaped, borne in more or less drooping, several-flowered clusters 1 to 3 inches 

 long, the flower-stalks glandular-hairy; berries purple-black, currant-like, small, 

 covered with gland-tipped hairs; occurs in moist woods, along streams, in sub- 

 alpine meadows, or on moist rocky slopes. (Syn. Ribes parvulum Rydb.). 



Occurrence. — OLYMPIC, abundant, 1,500 to 5,000 feet: Mount Angeles; Olympic 

 Hot Springs; Elwha River; Mount Colonel Bob; Lake Constance; trail to Constance 

 Ridge. MOUNT RAINIER, 4,500 to 6.000 feet; trail to Berkeley Park; Grand Park; 

 Paradise Park; along trail near Spray Falls, road to Yakima Park; Huckleberry 

 Creek; upper valley of the Nisqually. CRATER LAKE, 4,000 to 5,000 feet: southwest 



Fig. 36. Prickly currant {Rihes lacustre). 



